... but insist further action needed on reparations front.
The unanimous vote means Boston now joins a conversation about reparations that is happening across the country.
By Michael Gartland and Denis Slattery
By Kurtis Lee, The New York Times — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill in 2020 to create a statewide panel to study reparations for Black Californians.
NAARC and FirstRepair to Host Leaders from Across the Nation - Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee to Attend as Special Guest
National African American Reparations Commission Supports High Point N.C. NAACP
By Cassandra Berman
Urges Gov. Newsom to Sign California’s AB-2296 Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans.
By Raphael E. Rogers — Politicians seek to control classroom discussions about slavery in the US.
By Sherri Kolade
July 21, 2022 – Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and the HR-40 Strategy Group held a news conference calling on President Joe Biden to issue an Executive Order creating the HR-40 Commission.
By Asher Lehrer-Small
Collaborative process for repair to begin
By David Kindy — Often portrayed as an abolitionist, Hamilton may have enslaved people in his own household.
By John Murawski
Three new histories of British colonialism and slavery – by Vincent Brown, Thomas Harding and Kojo Koram – reveal the empire’s corrosive effects on today’s politics.
June 19, 2022, Washington, DC — An inspirational, educational, mobilizing, organizing gathering. Convened by the Global Circle of Reparations and Healing
Streamed live Wednesday, June 1, 2022
By Thomas Craemer
On heels of California's reparations report, Dr. Ron Daniels calls for broadened scope of reparations beneficiaries
By Aaron Allen, The Seattle Medium
In 1791, enslaved Haitians ousted the French and founded a nation. But France made generations of Haitians pay for their freedom. How much it cost them was a mystery, until now.
Streamed live Friday, April 22, 2022 — NAARC and the CARICOM Reparations Commission Virtual Public Dialogue
By DeNeen L. Brown
By Shanti Das
Noted Psychologist Brings Expertise to Commission
Streamed live Friday, December 10, 2021
What Barbados really wants is reparations. By Nadine White
By Will Jones, ABC7 Chicago
By Aarón Torres, Kansas City Star
The case for reparations, according to two Jews living in the first American city to offer them. By Asaf Shalev and Philissa Cramer
Now that the idea of reparations is gaining traction, Rappaport panelists grapple with the challenges and possibilities.
By Carolyn Cohn and Huw Jones
By Sanchez Manning
Keynote Nkechi Taifa, Esq. made a case for Reparations at the New Jersey State Conference NAACP 2021 Annual Convention, which was held virtually September 18-19, 2021
September 9, 2021 — Forum sponsored by the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy. Co-Sponsor: BC Law Black Law Students Association (BLSA).
Black people have the lowest home ownership rates in the country. Here’s how housing reparations can help change that.
A Special Labor Day Weekend Video Premiere — The Chattahoochee Brick Company was a brickworks located on the banks of the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, GA, notable for its extensive use of convict lease labor
July 13, 2021, 10 AM ET — Join faith leaders from various traditions as they call on Congress to pass H.R.40, a bill to study the legacy of slavery, its ongoing harms, and produce proposals for repair.
What would reparations look like and why are they needed? Julie Walker sits down with the elected officials, as well as Professor Lynda Day and Dr. Ron Daniels to learn more.
By Marcus Anthony Hunter, UCLA — For more than four hundred years, four thousand months, and two hundred million minutes, the United States of America has been living with and in the sin of slavery.
National African American Reparations Commission Hails Vote on H.R. 40 — Push for Passage Is Next Step
Here you will find frequently asked questions about Reparations, recent and archived Reparations news and commentaries, videos, useful links and more.
This bill establishes the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans. The commission shall examine slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the U.S. from 1619 to the present and recommend remedies.
300+ social justice organizations join the Why We Can't Wait Campaign #PassHR40Now!
By the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA) in collaboration with the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC).
A document for review, revision and adoption as a platform to guide the struggle for Reparations for people of African descent in the United States of America.
Caricom Reparations Commission's plan outlines “the path to reconciliation and justice for victims of crimes against humanity and their descendants”.
Established in 2015, the National African American Reparations Commission is a group of distinguished professionals from across the country with outstanding accomplishments in the fields of law, medicine, journalism, academia, history, civil rights and social justice advocacy.
NAARC’s Preliminary 10 Point Reparations Program is a document for review, revision and adoption as a platform to guide the struggle for Reparations for people of African descent in the United States of America.
This bill establishes the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans. The commission shall examine slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the U.S. from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies.
Established in April, 2015, the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) is a group of distinguished professionals from across the country with outstanding accomplishments in the fields of law, medicine, journalism, academia, history, civil rights and social justice advocacy.
The National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC); United in a common commitment to fight for reparatory justice & restoration of African American communities.
